James Mickens
James Mickens | |
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 Mickens in 2020 | |
| Board member of | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society |
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| Discipline | Computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Cybersecurity, distributed computing |
| Institutions | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
James W. Mickens is an American computer scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.[1] His research focuses on distributed systems, such as large-scale services and ways to make them more secure.[2][3][4] He is critical of machine learning as a boilerplate solution to most outstanding computational problems.[5]
Early life and education
[edit]James Mickens was raised in Atlanta. His father is physicist and mathematician Ronald E. Mickens.[6][7]
Mickens earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 2008.[8][7]
Career
[edit]Mickens worked as a member of the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research from 2009 through 2015.[9][10] He spent one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through the MLK Visiting Professors program becoming a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2015, where he was awarded tenure in 2019.[8][10][9][11] In 2016, he was one of the researchers working on Polaris, a new system designed at MIT to decrease the loading time for webpages.[12]
In 2020, Mickens was appointed to the board of directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[13] In 2021, he and Jonathan Zittrain began the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, a three-year-long BKC project to research and create new ideas to improve social media.[14]
Publications
[edit]- Mickens, James W.; Noble, Brian D. (May 2006). "Exploiting Availability Prediction in Distributed Systems". NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation. 3. EECS Department, University of Michigan. Berkeley, California: USENIX Association: 73–86 – via ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery.
- Netravali, Ravi; Goyal, Ameesh; Mickens, James; Balakrishnan, Hari (March 2016). "Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking". NSDI'16: Proceedings of the 13th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Berkeley, California: USENIX Association: 123–136. ISBN 978-1-931971-29-4 – via ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery.
References
[edit]- ^ Dizikes, Peter (December 8, 2020). "Straight Talk about Race in Academia". MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
...said James Mickens, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University.
- ^ Clarke, Richard A.; Knake, Robert K. (2020-09-15). The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats. Penguin. pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-0-525-56198-9.
- ^ Milano, Brett (October 7, 2020). "'We need to be more imaginative about cybersecurity than we are right now'". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ^ "Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain and James Mickens Discuss Cybersecurity". www.techpolicy.com. November 6, 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (August 20, 2018). "Here's the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on AI and security". BoingBoing.net.
- ^ Gibson, Lydialyle (2016-02-19). "James Mickens". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ a b "James Mickens and his father, Ronald Mickens, after James received his PhD in Computer Science Mickens Ronald G4". Ronald E. Mickens Collection, American Institute of Physics. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ a b "James Mickens | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ^ a b "#BlackInTheIvory: Academia's Role in Institutional Racism". MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- ^ a b "Harvard man gets tenure! "I want to thank all of the enemies that I had to destroy to achieve this great honor."". The Book Haven. Stanford University. November 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ Kohli, Sonali (January 20, 2015). "An MIT professor and Microsoft researcher's advice for black computer scientists". Quartz. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ Wang, Shan (March 9, 2016). "MIT researchers have designed a system that decreases loading time for websites by 34 percent". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ^ "Berkman Klein Center's Board of Directors Warmly Welcomes James Mickens | Berkman Klein Center". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. September 25, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
- ^ "Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society to launch a three-year multidisciplinary Institute to "reboot social media" | Berkman Klein Center". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. July 21, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
- 21st-century African-American academics
- 21st-century African-American scientists
- 21st-century American academics
- 21st-century American scientists
- Academics from Georgia (U.S. state)
- African-American computer scientists
- American computer scientists
- Computer security academics
- Georgia Tech alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Living people
- Researchers in distributed computing
- University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
- Writers from Atlanta